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                <title>Gustl Bauer</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Favourite restaurant of notoriously well-fed and well-drunk Vienna Mayor Michael Häupl as well as his predecessor the late Helmut Zilk. Whenever I'm home, I go to this place at least twice, it's really great, and filled with locals. The food is traditional Viennese/Austrian, the Schnitzel is delicious. In fact I have never been disappointed and have eaten myself up and down the menu. It's also got an excellent wide-ranging selection of (mostly Austrian) wine, with knowledgeable, friendly waiters eager to give you tips. A main dish tends to cost €13-19.<br>I can't wait to go back!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Kent Turkish Restaurant</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[If you fancy a break from Austrian cuisine, or even if you don't, go here - it's fantastic. There's a huge enclosed garden which is lovely and shady on a sunny day. There's Austrian and Turkish beer. And there's a huge menu with a staggering range of Turkish food. As an added bonus (well, I thought so) all the dishes which are usually made with lamb - koftes, shish kebabs etc - were veal-based instead. The prices are excellent too. And everything comes with mountains of bread.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Cafe Schwarzenberg</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A traditional Viennese cafe on the Ring, with cake, main meals, wine and beer - but also live piano music for most of the day. The portions are generous and the food is excellent. They also do great breakfasts.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Bierreither</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[We stumbled into this bar/restaurant on the Schwarzenbergplatz completely by accident - it was the first place we'd seen and we were starving - but we felt that we'd got very lucky! The traditional Austrian food (schnitzel, goulash, lots of different sausages) is very tasty and reasonably priced, and the beer is truly excellent. Plus the staff were friendly and remembered our orders when we came back. Which we did several times in our short visit to Vienna.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Walter Bauer Restaurant</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The food was creatively and skillfully prepared without being unnecessarily fussy; the ingredients were intensely flavorful; the kitchen in Mr. Bauer's hands was clearly superbly trained in the classics while not being afraid to exercise its creative flair! The service for our table of six was warm and very polite without being intrusive. The small restaurant (~ 30 seats) with its simple but warm decor provided for a very cozy ambience. I also ate very well at RieGi and Osterreicher im MAK, but Restaurant Bauer stands out and easily joins its rank among other one Michelin-starred restaurants I have dined at elsewhere in Europe. A truly memorable experience!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Gmoa Keller restaurant</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A great restaurant in central Vienna but just off the tourist trail. It's full of locals, has friendly staff and great, moderately priced food. The wiener schnitzel (a choice of veal or pork) is excellent, the steaks succulent and the Austrian wine delicious and great value. With an emphasis on meat and local delicacies such as deep fried calf's brain, it's maybe not ideal for vegetarians or the faint-hearted. Get there before 9.30ish to beat the opera crowd and in fine weather you can eat outside.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Caffe Latte</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A restaurant/bar in the 7th district of Vienna. All-day cocktail happy hour on Sunday (€ 4,10). Make sure to go there on your birthday, you'll get a three course meal for free!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Tel Aviv Beach</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A beach bar down at Donaukanal. Nice atmosphere, DJs and delicious Israeli food. The food and drinks are very reasonably priced and it's the perfect place for a nice afternoon drink.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Deewan</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A Pakistani restaurant offering a delicious all-you-can-eat buffet. Their menu changes weekly and contains three meat dishes, three vegetarian dishes, dessert etc. The best thing: except for the drinks, you pay as much as you wish!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Gösser Bier Klinic</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A great Viennese bar nestled off Graben Strasse, near Stephen's Platz. The only thing better than the excellent beer is the friendly, efficient staff who make sure your tankard is never empty. <br><br>The Klinic is not too pricey, and pretty decent food to boot makes this a must for any visitors to Vienna.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Naschmarkt</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Do not miss this if you visit Vienna - just a short and cheap underground ride from the centre and main attractions, Naschmarkt is a great place to explore for fun, or simply to eat very cheaply. Choose from a wide range of specialist food stalls (lots of cheese, olives etc) from around the world. A great multi-cultural experience if you get the chance, and even better if you're on a budget!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Vienna style doggie bags</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[If you go to a restaurant with massive portions don't be shy about asking for any food (e.g. Schnitzel) that you don't eat to be wrapped in foil so you can take it away with you. Lots of locals do it and there's no shame attached.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Red Lion</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The first real British pub in Vienna - unlike the rest this pub is owned and run by a man from London. It offers good food and is the only one that gives you a good pint of beer (real ale). Well worth a visit just for the tea towels on the wall.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Naschmarkt</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The great thing about the Naschmarkt, at least on Saturdays, is the way it progresses from tidy little Austrian huts at one end to a thoroughly oriental flea market at the other end. It’s like walking from one world to another: the best illustration of Metternich's comment that the Balkans begin at Kärtnerstrasse. Mind your handbag, but have fun! If you are staying in a place where you can do your own cooking, this is the place to stock up. And if your feet get tired, you could have a coffee in the sumptuously mirrored and gay-friendly Savoy Cafe.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Cafe Westend</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[My favourite cafe in Vienna. For all who appreciate comfortable, well-used, elegantly scruffy interiors, in which a lot of the fittings are probably from the 50s or 60s. <br><br>The service is perfect Viennese tradition: efficient and quick (when the waiter isn’t on a cigarette break), skilled (the coffee is fine - rough and strong; the little trays fly around on improbable trajectories, but without spilling a drop) and with just that hint that you’re really bloody lucky to be getting served at all. <br><br>Have a grosser brauner: it'll set you up for the day (or night). The large mound of newspapers also meets the requirement of tradition, as does the classic Viennese breakfast of a couple of semmel and perhaps a boiled egg. Perfect for arriving in Vienna from a night train.<br><br>It’s opposite Westbahnhof train station, on the corner of Mariahilfer Straße and the Gürtel. When you come out of the main entrance of the station, head straight across the big road, crossing all the tramlines, going past the U-bahn hall, and then its just 10 yards to the right after you get across the last bit of pedestrian crossing. If you’re coming from the underground, there’s an exit right next to the door of the cafe; if memory serves, it’s labelled "innere mariahilferstr".]]></description>
                
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                <title>Café Diglas</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Recommended elsewhere as a coffee house, it's also a source of decent food - excellent set menus, including vegetarian choices - with much more atmosphere than the sterile Sacher. And the waiters are not nearly so snooty as they used to be. There's an excellent bookshop (Morawa) across the road and another exquisite Konditorei (Heiner).]]></description>
                
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                <title>Coffee houses</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Vienna’s grand coffee houses do not just serve coffee and cake, they also offer a range of meals and drinks. Try Café Bellaria (adjacent to Dr Karl Renner Ring, near Rathaus (the town hall), which may well have a pianist playing. Friendly staff.<br><br>For something completely different try Café Hawelka, the traditional haunt of artists and writers. You may be served by old Mr Hawelka himself, or one of the family.<br>Dorotheergasse (off the Graben one minute from Stephansplatz)]]></description>
                
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                <title>Gosser Bierklinik</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[What could be better than a beer clinic? This is a traditional Austrian tavern situated in the heart of Vienna. Try the dunkles (dark) beer for a change. Hearty Austrian food. Try the bauernschmaus if you are very hungry and like meat/sausage, it comes with a dumpling. Friendly staff and lots of interesting rooms.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Schnitzelwirt</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A brilliant out-of-the way restaurant with cheap, huge plates of schnitzel.  Much better than some of the tourist traps in the centre of town.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Oesterreicher im MAK</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The restaurant in the Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst (Museum for Applied Arts). It is run by Helmut Oesterreicher who for many years cooked in Austria's best and most expensive restaurant, the Steirereck. Here he has changed his style completely. He cooks excellent traditional Austrian and Viennese fare which everybody can afford. It's at Stubenring 5 - get the No1 or 2 tram.]]></description>
                
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